"Fox News Sunday" is heading to Louisville, Ky. Jack Conway, Kentucky's attorney general and the Democratic candidate for Senate , and Rand Paul, the Republican nominee and son of Representative Ron Paul, Republican of Texas, have agreed to a live debate on "Fox News Sunday" on Oct.3 at 9 a.m. (Eastern time).

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Behind TV Analysts, Pentagons Hidden Hand April 20, 2008 / http://tinyurl.com/3u6rtyIn the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded the gulag of our times by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure.Records and interviews show how the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse  an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/...

Pentagons Pundits: A Look at the Defense Departments Propaganda Program / April 22, 2008 / http://tinyurl.com/64ln28The New York Times has revealed new details on how the Pentagon recruited more than 75 retired military officers to appear on TV outlets as so-called military analysts ahead of the Iraq war to portray Iraq as an urgent threat. The Times reported the Pentagon continues to use the analysts in a propaganda campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administrations wartime performance. We speak with Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.) and Peter Hart, of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/22/pentago...

US News Media's Latest Disgrace April 21, 2008 / http://tinyurl.com/6oem8mAfter prying loose 8,000 pages of Pentagon documents, the New York Times has proven what should have been obvious years ago: the Bush administration manipulated public opinion on the Iraq War, in part, by funneling propaganda through former senior military officers who served as expert analysts on TV news shows.In 2002-03, these military analysts were ubiquitous on TV justifying the Iraq invasion, and most have remained supportive of the war in the five years since. The Times investigation showed that the analysts were being briefed by the Pentagon on what to say and had undisclosed conflicts of interest via military contracts.Retired Green Beret Robert S. Bevelacqua, a former Fox News analyst, said the Pentagon treated the retired military officers as puppets:It was them saying,we need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you.[NYT, April 20, 2008]None of that, of course, should come as any surprise. Where do people think generals and admirals go to work after they retire from the government?If they play ball with the Pentagon, they get fat salaries serving on corporate boards of military contractors, or they get rich running consultancies that trade on quick access to high-ranking administration officials. If theyre not team players, theyre shut out.http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/042108.htm...

----Bush Has Highest Disapproval Rating in History of Gallup PollMeanwhile, President Bush has set a new record. He now has the highest disapproval rating of any president in the seventy-year history of the Gallup Poll. In the most recent USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, 69 percent of Americans disapproved of Bushs job performance. The previous record was held by Harry Truman, who had a 67 percent disapproval rate in 1952. Bush also holds the record for having the highest approval rating of any president in Gallups history. In September 2001, in the days after the 9/11 attacks, Bushs approval spiked to 90 percent.

Economics Journalist Robert Kuttner on the Most Serious Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression:This is the Result of Rightwing Ideology and the Political Power of Wall Street / January 23, 2008 / http://tinyurl.com/3burrhAmid growing fears of a worldwide recession, the Federal Reserve slashed a key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point on Tuesday, the biggest single cut in nearly a quarter of a century. Meanwhile, President Bush and congressional leaders pledged to work together on a stimulus measure that would inject about $150 billion in additional money into the economy. But many economists are skeptical over whether any measures can turn around a severe slump in the housing market and the subprime mortgage crisis, signs of growing unemployment and weakening consumer spending and the added blow of record high oil prices. We speak to veteran economics journalist Robert Kuttner and Robert Weissman, co-director of the corporate accountability group Essential Action and editor of Multinational Monitor magazinehttp://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/23/recessi...

O'Neill lashes 'blind man' BushA former US treasury secretary has given an unflattering account of his time under President George W Bush./ 10 January, 2004 / http://tinyurl.com/3euqroPaul O'Neill describes Mr Bush as being disengaged and says that at cabinet meetings the president was like a blind man in a room full of deaf people.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/338...---------

Gen. Joseph P. Hoar (USMC-ret.), a four-star general, was Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command (1991-94), commanding the U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf after the 1991 war. He also served in the Vietnam War, as a battalion and brigade advisor with the Vietnamese Marines. He was interviewed by Jeffrey Steinberg on May 6, 2004.http://www.larouchepub.com/other/interviews/2...

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Bush's Secret Spying on Americans August 2, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/2d8ua7The dispute over whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales committed perjury when he parsed words about George W. Bushs warrantless surveillance program misses a larger point: the extraordinary secrecy surrounding these spying operations is not aimed at al-Qaeda, but at the American people.

But al-Qaeda terrorists always have assumed that their electronic communications were vulnerable to interception, which is why 9/11 attackers like Mohamed Atta traveled overseas for face-to-face meetings with their handlers. They limited their phone calls to mostly routine conversations./ http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/080207.htm...

Spy Agency Data After Sept. 11 Led F.B.I. to Dead Ends January 17, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/2cnkcyWASHINGTON, Jan. 16 - In the anxious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency began sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists. The stream soon became a flood, requiring hundreds of agents to check out thousands of tips a month.But virtually all of them, current and former officials say, led to dead ends or innocent Americans.http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/politics/17...

<quoted text>H.RES.333Title: Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.http://tinyurl.com/276yuohttp://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z... :@@@N-----Behind TV Analysts, Pentagons Hidden HandApril 20, 2008 / http://tinyurl.com/3u6rtyIn the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded the gulag of our times by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure.Records and interviews show how the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform the analysts into a kind of media Trojan horse  an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/...Pentagons Pundits: A Look at the Defense Departments Propaganda Program / April 22, 2008 / http://tinyurl.com/64ln28The New York Times has revealed new details on how the Pentagon recruited more than 75 retired military officers to appear on TV outlets as so-called military analysts ahead of the Iraq war to portray Iraq as an urgent threat. The Times reported the Pentagon continues to use the analysts in a propaganda campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administrations wartime performance. We speak with Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.) and Peter Hart, of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/22/pentago...

Has GETMO closed yet? That was one of Obastard's campain promises.With those 75 and the majority of congress, looks like they did a very good job! LMAO!!!

<quoted text>Has GETMO closed yet? That was one of Obastard's campain promises.With those 75 and the majority of congress, looks like they did a very good job! LMAO!!!

Obama reneged on all promises proven by continuing 90% of all Bush/Cheney policy.

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Flashback: Bushs FBI Director Said Torture Didnt Foil Any Terror PlotsNow that Bush administration officials have launched a major campaign to persuade us that torture worked, perhaps its worth recalling that George W. Bushs own FBI director said in an interview last year that he wasnt aware of a single planned terror attack on America that had been foiled by information obtained through torture. Robert Mueller, who was appointed by Bush in 2001 and remains FBI director under Obama, delivered that assessment at the end of this December 2008 article in Vanity Fair on torture:

I ask Mueller: So far as he is aware, have any attacks on America been disrupted thanks to intelligence obtained through what the administration still calls enhanced techniques?

Im really reluctant to answer that, Mueller says. He pauses, looks at an aide, and then says quietly, declining to elaborate:I dont believe that has been the case.

That stands in direct contrast to Dick Cheneys recent claim that torture has been enormously valuable in terms of preventing another mass-casualty attack against the United States.

Youd think that this sort of thing would throw a bit of a wrench into the Bushies campaign. But as Charles Kaiser notes, these types of statements havent really broken through the media din.

O'Neill lashes 'blind man' BushA former US treasury secretary has given an unflattering account of his time under President George W Bush./ 10 January, 2004 / http://tinyurl.com/3euqroPaul O'Neill describes Mr Bush as being disengaged and says that at cabinet meetings the president was like a blind man in a room full of deaf people.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/338...---------INTERVIEW: GENERAL JOSEPH P. HOARhttp://tinyurl.com/yqyep May 21, 2004`The Neo-Cons Have Had Their Day;Now It's Time for a Clean Sweep'Gen. Joseph P. Hoar (USMC-ret.), a four-star general, was Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command (1991-94), commanding the U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf after the 1991 war. He also served in the Vietnam War, as a battalion and brigade advisor with the Vietnamese Marines. He was interviewed by Jeffrey Steinberg on May 6, 2004.http://www.larouchepub.com/other/interviews/2...-------Bush's Secret Spying on AmericansAugust 2, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/2d8ua7The dispute over whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales committed perjury when he parsed words about George W. Bushs warrantless surveillance program misses a larger point: the extraordinary secrecy surrounding these spying operations is not aimed at al-Qaeda, but at the American people.But al-Qaeda terrorists always have assumed that their electronic communications were vulnerable to interception, which is why 9/11 attackers like Mohamed Atta traveled overseas for face-to-face meetings with their handlers. They limited their phone calls to mostly routine conversations./ http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/080207.htm...

Ex-Interrogator: Torture Doesn't WorkDecember 06, 2008 / http://tinyurl.com/c4urkyWriting under the pseudonym of Matthew Alexander, a former special intelligence operations officer, who in 1996 led an interrogations team in Iraq, has written a compelling book where he details his direct experience with torture practices. He conducted more than 300 interrogations and supervised more than a thousand and was awarded a Bronze Star for his achievements in Iraq. Alexander's nonviolent interrogation methods led Special Forces to Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. His new book is titled "How to Break a Terrorist: The US Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq."

"It's extremely ineffective, and it's counterproductive to what we're trying to accomplish," he told reporters. "When we torture somebody, it hardens their resolve," Alexander explained. "The information that you get is unreliable ... And even if you do get reliable information, you're able to stop a terrorist attack, Al-Qaeda's then going to use the fact that we torture people to recruit new members." Alexander says torture techniques used in Iraq consistently failed to produce actionable intelligence and that methods outlined in the US Army Field Manual, which rest on confidence building, consistently worked and gave the interrogators access to critical information. http://www.military.com/news/article/exinterr...

Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming / March 21, 2008 / http://tinyurl.com/24juk4Dr. James Hansen is widely regarded as the leading climate change scientist in the country. For the past 25 years he has headed NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Just over a year ago, Dr. Hansen went public with a charge that made headlines around the worldthat the Bush administration had been trying to silence his warnings about the urgent need to address climate change. Dr. Hansen joins us in our firehouse studio. His story is detailed in a new book by author Mark Bowen titled,Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming. Bowen joins us from Massachusetts.http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/21/censori...

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Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientistJames Hansen, one of the worlds leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancerhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/ju...

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Climate change is here  and worse than we thoughtBy James E. Hansen / Aug. 3, 2012 / http://tinyurl.com/c68kowbJames E. Hansen directs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. When I testified before the Senate in the hot summer of 1988 , I warned of the kind of future that climate change would bring to us and our planet. I painted a grim picture of the consequences of steadily increasing temperatures, driven by mankinds use of fossil fuels.But I have a confession to make: I was too optimistic.http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/climat...

US News Media's Latest DisgraceApril 21, 2008 / http://tinyurl.com/6oem8mAfter prying loose 8,000 pages of Pentagon documents, the New York Times has proven what should have been obvious years ago: the Bush administration manipulated public opinion on the Iraq War, in part, by funneling propaganda through former senior military officers who served as expert analysts on TV news shows.In 2002-03, these military analysts were ubiquitous on TV justifying the Iraq invasion, and most have remained supportive of the war in the five years since. The Times investigation showed that the analysts were being briefed by the Pentagon on what to say and had undisclosed conflicts of interest via military contracts.Retired Green Beret Robert S. Bevelacqua, a former Fox News analyst, said the Pentagon treated the retired military officers as puppets:It was them saying,we need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you.[NYT, April 20, 2008]None of that, of course, should come as any surprise. Where do people think generals and admirals go to work after they retire from the government?If they play ball with the Pentagon, they get fat salaries serving on corporate boards of military contractors, or they get rich running consultancies that trade on quick access to high-ranking administration officials. If theyre not team players, theyre shut out.http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/042108.htm...----Bush Has Highest Disapproval Rating in History of Gallup PollMeanwhile, President Bush has set a new record. He now has the highest disapproval rating of any president in the seventy-year history of the Gallup Poll. In the most recent USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, 69 percent of Americans disapproved of Bushs job performance. The previous record was held by Harry Truman, who had a 67 percent disapproval rate in 1952. Bush also holds the record for having the highest approval rating of any president in Gallups history. In September 2001, in the days after the 9/11 attacks, Bushs approval spiked to 90 percent.

CNN employed active duty U.S. Army psychological operations personnel last year, WorldNetDaily has confirmed through several sources at Fort Bragg and elsewhere.

Maj. Thomas Collins, U.S. Information Service has confirmed that "psyops" (psychological operations) personnel, soldiers and officers, have worked in the CNN headquarters in Atlanta. The lend/lease exercise was part of an Army program called "Training With Industry." According to Collins, the soldiers and officers, "... worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the production of news."

When asked if the introduction of military personnel into a civilian news organization was standard operating procedure, one source said, "That question is above my pay grade ... but I hope so. It's what we do." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp...

O'Neill lashes 'blind man' BushA former US treasury secretary has given an unflattering account of his time under President George W Bush./ 10 January, 2004 / http://tinyurl.com/3euqroPaul O'Neill describes Mr Bush as being disengaged and says that at cabinet meetings the president was like a blind man in a room full of deaf people.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/338...---------INTERVIEW: GENERAL JOSEPH P. HOARhttp://tinyurl.com/yqyep May 21, 2004`The Neo-Cons Have Had Their Day;Now It's Time for a Clean Sweep'Gen. Joseph P. Hoar (USMC-ret.), a four-star general, was Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command (1991-94), commanding the U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf after the 1991 war. He also served in the Vietnam War, as a battalion and brigade advisor with the Vietnamese Marines. He was interviewed by Jeffrey Steinberg on May 6, 2004.http://www.larouchepub.com/other/interviews/2...-------Bush's Secret Spying on AmericansAugust 2, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/2d8ua7The dispute over whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales committed perjury when he parsed words about George W. Bushs warrantless surveillance program misses a larger point: the extraordinary secrecy surrounding these spying operations is not aimed at al-Qaeda, but at the American people.But al-Qaeda terrorists always have assumed that their electronic communications were vulnerable to interception, which is why 9/11 attackers like Mohamed Atta traveled overseas for face-to-face meetings with their handlers. They limited their phone calls to mostly routine conversations./ http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/080207.htm...

this is actually pretty funny, G.W. defends our country very successfully after receiving a govt. structure with minimal emphasis on national security, and all you can do is make stuff up to 'try' to make him look bad, BAAAAAAAAA, his legacy is that of defending our country, you cannot rewrite that no matter how hard you try, oblamer on the other hand, well, good luck with that one,

Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming / March 21, 2008 / http://tinyurl.com/24juk4Dr. James Hansen is widely regarded as the leading climate change scientist in the country. For the past 25 years he has headed NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Just over a year ago, Dr. Hansen went public with a charge that made headlines around the worldthat the Bush administration had been trying to silence his warnings about the urgent need to address climate change. Dr. Hansen joins us in our firehouse studio. His story is detailed in a new book by author Mark Bowen titled,Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming. Bowen joins us from Massachusetts.http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/21/censori...=====Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientistJames Hansen, one of the worlds leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancerhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/ju...----Climate change is here  and worse than we thoughtBy James E. Hansen / Aug. 3, 2012 / http://tinyurl.com/c68kowbJames E. Hansen directs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.When I testified before the Senate in the hot summer of 1988 , I warned of the kind of future that climate change would bring to us and our planet. I painted a grim picture of the consequences of steadily increasing temperatures, driven by mankinds use of fossil fuels.But I have a confession to make: I was too optimistic.http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/climat...

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